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In reply to the discussion: Utah Is on Track to End Homelessness by 2015 With This One Simple Idea [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)91. Thank You for the kind words.
After 30 years of Bi-Partisan trashing the New Deal and the Great Society,
it is past time for those of us who remember what a DEMOCRAT is supposed to be to start speaking up.
With the exception of Warren, Grayson, and a handful of others,
there are very few "Democrats" who STILL hold true to the values that
built the Largest, Wealthiest, and most Upwardly Mobile Working Class the World had ever seen.
LBJ's War on Poverty was a HUGE success.
We KNOW what works.
It is written in the History Books.
So WHY does the modern Democratic Party Leadership RUN from these Traditional Democratic Party Values?
It is well past time for Working Class & Poor DEMOCRATS to have a Come to Jesus (FDR) confrontation with our Party Leadership.
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"I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the Fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign."
---President Harry Truman
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"I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the Fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign."
---President Harry Truman

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U forgot the sarcasm smiley.. By definition if someone has a home then they are not homeless.
geckosfeet
Dec 2013
#5
Republican State Gives Free Houses to Moochers, Cuts Homelessness by 74 Percent
ProSense
Dec 2013
#7
I'm not sure how far it will go, but it won't come to WI with this legislature.
HereSince1628
Dec 2013
#11
The only way this will sink in with economic conservatives is with the value of the dollar
Harmony Blue
Dec 2013
#12
I remember that.. conservative radio called the housing wino hotels, or something. It is logical and
freshwest
Dec 2013
#47
If Obama was all over this and trying to promote it, we know what the result would be.
madinmaryland
Dec 2013
#43
"Do you think the Right Wing could get any MORE crazy?" Yes and Fuck Yes.
madinmaryland
Dec 2013
#93
I have always found Utah to be a strange state. It has some of the most developed
bluestate10
Dec 2013
#22
These apartments will be privately owned, rents collected for profit, not some
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2013
#62
Used to work in the administration of a city homeless shelter. Utah has the right approach.
JDPriestly
Dec 2013
#31
It always seemed to me that, in "Red States", they jump to the opportunity
King_Klonopin
Dec 2013
#56
Food, Shelter and Clothing should be provided to anyone who can't get that for themselves.
harun
Dec 2013
#72
UTAH???? a holiday miracle, indeed. I have been advocating for the same thing in my oh-so-red
niyad
Dec 2013
#75